Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 5

The boy to whom he spoke was no other than the son of a poor washer-woman, who was just going past the house.

Who acts: boy, poor washer woman · What happens: speak, be, go · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, poor washer woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 other	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 whom	case
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 boy	nmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spoke	nsubj
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whom	acl:relcl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 other	cop
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 son	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 other	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 woman	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
16	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 woman	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 washer	punct
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 going	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 woman	conj
24	past	past	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 other	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	boy			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the boy		than the son of a poor washer woman; other property	tree rules
3	go	past · progressive	a poor washer woman	the house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past house=Initial_Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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